Deciphering the Multifaceted Immune Landscape of Unresectable Primary Liver Cancer to Predict Immunotherapy Response.

Immunotherapies employing PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are vital for primary liver cancer (PLC), but response rates remain unsatisfying. Accurate differentiation of responders from non-responders to immunotherapy is imperative. Here, single-cell-scaled mass cytometry analysis on sequential peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from ICI-treated PLC patients is conducted, and tissue residence of immune subpopulations is assessed via multiplex immunohistochemistry.

Liver Transplantation Outcomes of HBV-, HCV-, and Alcohol-induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States: Analysis of National Inpatient Samples.

Objective: Liver transplantation is a current treatment option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The United States National Inpatient Sample database was utilized to identify risk factors that influence the outcome of liver transplantation, including locoregional recurrence, distant metastasis, and in-hospital mortality, in HCC patients with concurrent hepatitis B infection, hepatitis C infection, or alcoholic cirrhosis.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included HCC patients (n=2391) from the National Inpatient Sample database who underwent liver transplantation and were diagnosed with hepatitis B or C virus infection, co-infection with hepatitis B and C, or alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver between 2005 and 2014.

[One-year combination therapy de novo of adefovir dipivoxil and lamivudine for decompensated cirrhosis related to HBV].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and potential renal impairment of one-year combination therapy de novo of adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) and lamivudine (LMV) for decompensated cirrhosis related to HBV.

Methods: A total of 36 patients with decompensated cirrhosis related to HBV, nobody had nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) treatment history, were recruited and were divided into two group (control group and observation group) randomly. A monotherapy of LMV (100 mg per day) was selected to individuals in control group (n = 18), in contrast, a combination therapy de novo of ADV (10 mg per day) and LMV (100 mg per day) was applied to those in observation group (n = 18).